21/05/2024 12:15 - 16:30

HALL: FATESI - CUSMANO

Proponent: Cawdron H.

Chair: Cawdron H.

Speaker: Cawdron H., Langby L., Leech D., Leidenhag J., Leung K., Tzohar R., Vaidya A., Weise T.

This panel will focus on the topic of panpsychism and religion. Panpsychism is the idea that consciousness is ubiquitous in the universe, and it is currently experiencing a resurgence in contemporary philosophy of mind as an explanation of consciousness. Panpsychism is often developed in an atomistic fashion in which the fundamental building blocks of reality, such as quarks and protons, are seen as conscious. However, there are numerous other forms. These include, but are not limited to, cosmopsychism, which construes the universe as conscious; panprotopsychism, which replaces phenomenal properties with proto-conscious properties (properties that are not conscious themselves, but that give rise to consciousness when combined) at the fundamental level; and panexperientialism, in which conscious experience exists at the fundamental level. This panel will contribute to the dialogue between panpsychism and religion through considering the applications of panpsychism to certain religious concepts or doctrines, outlining the implications of panpsychism for debates related to religion, and highlighting parallels between panpsychism and the thought of particular religious scholars or traditions.